Jack Levine Quotes

There is no art without contemplation.

It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.

One of the best things about paintings is their silence - which prompts reflection and random reverie.

With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour.

You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.

I'm inspired by art - in whatever form it takes. I love when I see a painting or a photograph that captures my attention.

Imagination is nostalgia for the past, the absent it is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshot of reality.

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

Indeed, an engineer designing a structure is not unlike an artist painting one. Both start with nothing but talent, experience, and inspiration. The fresh piece of paper on the drawing board is as blank as the newly stretched piece of canvas.

I start a picture and I finish it.

I love creating images, of course, because I'm an artist.

To me, art begets art. Painting feeds the eye just as poetry feeds the ear, which is to say that both feed the soul.

I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it.

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

My painting does not come from the easel.

I'm a happy camper when I'm doing both: writing and art every day, along with a dose of reading and adventures into what else is being done by other artists/writers and poets. Like breathing. I've written poems or fictions to go with a painting. The source for the inspiration of the art often eludes me.

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

I believe that painting should come through the avenues of meditation rather than the canals of action.

Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.

When I paint, some things come out, and I don't know. Maybe it's because I have such talent as a painter.

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.

The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.

I view art as an inspirational tool.

Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.